CMI Restoration – Quick Update

Well, it’s all gone a bit quiet on the Fairlight restoration front, so I just wanted to give you a brief update, for those that are curious.

Basically, as I detailed earlier, we discovered that the mainframe was suffering from some stability issues in as much as it would intermittently boot up, and at other times it wouldn’t. When it did, it would be ok for 5-15 minutes and then freeze and crash. So Peter has been making and testing new boards to send over to me and these are due to ship any day soon, along with some new cables and connectors for the music keyboard. We hope that this will resolve the issue and the old boards can go back to Australia to be checked and fixed for the next machine to appear.

In the meantime, I’ve taken delivery of two Panasonic Magneto-Optical drives as Peter has a substantial amount of library and multi-tracks on MO disks, so one will stay with this machine and the other will go to Australia for use at Horizontal productions. I’ve also now hooked up Sarm Studios old Roland VS-880EX to the Fairlight, ready to start recording once we get her stable 🙂

So, keep checking back as I hope to have some developments for you soon 🙂